Russia & CIS

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for the Pentagon to submit a plan for the defeat of Daesh to him in the next 30 days,APA reports quoting Sputnik.

In a phone call on Saturday, the Presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, agreed to maintain regular contact and charged their teams with organizing their meeting in person, the Kremlin press service said, TASS reports.

Azerbaijani cultural monuments and cemeteries are being destroyed as a result of the Armenian occupation of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is a cradle of Azerbaijani culture, Sevinj Fataliyeva, a member of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, said.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received a delegation led by President of American Jewish Committee John Shapiro.

Flights on Baku-Ganja-Baku route will be restored from February 5 upon the request of Ganja city executive authority.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev’s order on measures to restore the Jojug Marjanli village of the Jabrayil district is a historical step, historical decision. This is the beginning of big events, Deputy Prime Minister Ali Ahmadov said.

“April fighting is a glorious history of our lives. We also suffered losses in the fighting. However, today the martyrs’ souls are pleased. Thus, people, with great enthusiasm, return to the lands for which the martyrs sacrificed their lives”, Chairman of the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs Ali Hasanov said Saturday.

So, Turkey’s rating was downgraded from investment-grade to speculative-grade.

Chain-reaction collision happened on the Baku-Sumgait road on Jan. 28 morning, Trend correspondent reports from the accident site.

Turkish ambassador to Moldova Hulusi Kılıç met with media representatives and political experts in Kishinev, APA reports.

Brazil’s Health Ministry has confirmed over 40 cases of human death from yellow fever in the past weeks, Sputnik reported.

Armenian armed units violated ceasefire a total of 8 times throughout the day, using large-caliber machine guns, Ministry of Defence said on January 28.

The telephone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has been set for 12 noon (21:00 GMT +4) on Saturday, the White House said in a press release, Sputnik reported.

Renown British actor Sir John Vincent Hurt has died at the age of 77, Sputnik reported.

The Russian military have received an opportunity to see everything that happens in the air and in space from the coast of Morocco to Spitzbergen and to the east coast of the United States. The second station was put into operation near Armavir in 2009. The station monitors the events happening from North Africa to India

Russian liberals share a skeptical, to put it mildly, attitude to US President Donald Trump. In 2000, when Bush won the American election, many were giggling, saying that it was nothing special, some fool won the election, a Democrat today, a Republican tomorrow, and it was only the stable system of transfer of power that was important

Trump's nominee will fill the vacancy left on the nine-seat court following the death of long-serving conservative Justice Antonin Scalia on Feb. 13.

"It is necessary to cancel the unnecessary institution of governors."

The State Customs Committee (SCC) of Azerbaijan has joined a system making it possible to get preliminary information about the passengers arriving in the country on planes, Vugar Aliyev, head of the Analytical Department of the SCC, said.

Russia's Rosatom has submitted to build new nuclear power plants (NPP) in South Africa, CEO Alexei Likhachev said Tuesday.